Get Over It (Eagles song)
"Get Over It" is a song by the Eagles, released as a single after a fourteen year breakup. It was also the first song written by bandmates Glenn Frey and Don Henley when the band reunited. "Get Over It" was played live for the first time during their Hell Freezes Over tour in 1994, with Henley singing lead vocal on stage and Scott Crago playing the drums. It returned the band to the U.S. Top 40 after a thirteen-year absence, peaking at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also hit #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
The song is about Henley's frustration with others (such as TV chat show contestants) placing their shortcomings, failures, mental breakdowns, and financial problems on those who don't deserve it, then believing that the world owes them a favor, to which he replies, "the big bad world doesn't owe you a thing," the constant whining, and complaining of others, even to the point of them blaming their present failures on the past, eventually forces the man to state, out loud, "I'd like to find your inner child, and kick its little ass!" Henley also references William Shakespeares Henry VI pt.II when he states, "Old Billy was right: let's kill all the lawyers - kill 'em tonight", echoing Shakespeares line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
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